They serve to give your side of the board tempo by allowing your creatures to attack (removing defenders), giving you more time to set up the board (removing attackers/expensive creatures), and allow for combat tricks (saving your creatures after damage is on the stack
If your opponents are all swinging in and have just a couple of creatures each, thats a draw six right there
FINAL FANTASY XII, FINAL FANTASY XIII, FINAL FANTASY XV, and FINAL FANTASY XVI : These games were more willing to stray from the genre-defining elements of JRPGs originally enshrined by the series
Red-Green Landfall Aggro Transform your lands into tide-turning territory with red-green aggro cards
Red has tons of 1-mana cantrips
In this contextas a new game with an unsure futurewe have Chronicles , the first mass reprint set in the game's history